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Matt Hancock promises 11,000 free iPads to care homes to 'reduce unnecessary visits'
Free iPads will be given to thousands of care homes, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has promised to stop the spread of COVID-19 by ‘reducing unnecessary visits’. Source: Care Feeds
Care homes offered higher fees to take COVID-19 patients
Care homes in Cumbria are being offered £1,500 – that’s double the local weekly fee – to take COVID-positive hospital patients, prompting a care operator to speak out against the move. Source: Care Feeds
Extra care housing couple who moved in together during lockdown get married
A couple who met two years ago when they both moved into the same extra care housing accommodation have tied the knot lockdown style with residents and friends wishing them well from the garden. Source: Care Feeds
Care home resident who misses 'bairns' calls for end to visiting restrictions
A Scottish care home resident has taken to social media to appeal to the government to lift current care home restrictions so she can see her family and have her “bairns roundabout” her. Source: Care Feeds